Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, with Critical Observations on Their Works by Samuel Johnson, Volum 1Derby & Jackson, 1861 - 635 pàgines |
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Pàgina x
... printed narratives . Seeing the scantiness of Murdoch's " Memoir of Thomson , ' he requested Boswell to procure what information he could in Scotland concerning and from the following letter it will be seen that he at least entered into ...
... printed narratives . Seeing the scantiness of Murdoch's " Memoir of Thomson , ' he requested Boswell to procure what information he could in Scotland concerning and from the following letter it will be seen that he at least entered into ...
Pàgina xi
... printed , put neatly together , and sent them to the King . What he says of them I know not . If the King is a Whig he will not like them ; but is any King a Whig ? " Other and ampler notices of the second and last portion occur in his ...
... printed , put neatly together , and sent them to the King . What he says of them I know not . If the King is a Whig he will not like them ; but is any King a Whig ? " Other and ampler notices of the second and last portion occur in his ...
Pàgina xv
... printed his poem to Sacheverell , whereas it is to be seen with his other earliest printed productions in so common a book as Tonson's Miscellany ; confounds Sir Richard Steele with Dicky Norris the actor ; attributes a discovery to ...
... printed his poem to Sacheverell , whereas it is to be seen with his other earliest printed productions in so common a book as Tonson's Miscellany ; confounds Sir Richard Steele with Dicky Norris the actor ; attributes a discovery to ...
Pàgina xxi
... printed among the Poets differs from the first edition only in the alteration of an almost unimportant passage , and in the omission of certain extracts , meant at first for filling It was a work of necessity and love . “ I wrote , " he ...
... printed among the Poets differs from the first edition only in the alteration of an almost unimportant passage , and in the omission of certain extracts , meant at first for filling It was a work of necessity and love . “ I wrote , " he ...
Pàgina xxxii
... printed a translation , little noticed at the time , and long forgotten , of a Latin book about Abyssinia . He then put forth proposals for publishing by subscription the poems of Politian , with notes containing a history of modern ...
... printed a translation , little noticed at the time , and long forgotten , of a Latin book about Abyssinia . He then put forth proposals for publishing by subscription the poems of Politian , with notes containing a history of modern ...
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